A night with live music, dancing, singing, poetry reading, and spoken word performance to celebrate refugee communities in El Cajon - their home, belonging, and legacy with memories of love and empathy. To learn more and reserve a seat, click on the link below: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dance-of-home-tickets-49514486161 Location: Smith Recital Hall, SDSU School of Music and Dance […]

What good are wings if we don't lift each other up? Musical Ambassadors of Peace travels to Tijuana to dance and sing with our asylum-seeking friends. We bring food, supplies, donations, and our music and love.

What good are wings if we don't lift each other up? Musical Ambassadors of Peace travels to Tijuana to dance and sing with our asylum-seeking friends. We bring food, supplies, donations, and our music and love.

**This event features the musical accompaniment of Avalee** Ari Honarvar, who was born into a long line of Persian poets and Rumi lovers, will discuss and sign Rumi’s Gift Oracle Cards ($29.99 Red Feather). The set beckons you to join Rumi’s caravan through both the dark and mysterious valleys and the wondrous and dazzling peaks […]

First-Aid for the Psyche is an interactive workshop that will offer participants tools and strategies to help them build the resilience that we all need. We’ll discuss everyday habits to increase resilience, practical awareness-building and self-soothing tools, simple approaches for supportive conversations, and strategies for disarming overwhelm. Our communities need service from all of us […]

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I’m honored to be among more than 40 scholars, teachers, contemporary mystics — including Anne Lamott, Mirabai Starr, Matthew Fox, Andrew Harvey, Krishna Das, and many others — as they impart lessons you can apply in these tumultuous times.  RSVP here for Mystics Summit — at no charge: https://shiftnetwork.infusionsoft.com/go/mys21a22627/a22627 Throughout this landmark summit, you’ll receive not only gems of […]

AMPLIFYING THE VOICES OF UNACCOMPANIED MINORS is an opportunity for teachers and school leaders to hear from those who have lived the experience of being unaccompanied minors in the American school system. PARTICIPANTS WILL ● Hear first-person accounts from people who have lived through the experience of being an unaccompanied minor. ● Hear about the […]

What is pleasurable is sustainable. Often, when writers get stuck, it’s because the joy has evaporated. Unwelcomed anxiety about the future of the project, guilty feelings when not writing, or resentment about competing responsibilities, subsume the writer’s joy. In this 3-hour workshop, we’ll explore orienting toward what is pleasing in the moment through the channels […]